Cigar-cutter



(No Model.)

E. T. QUIN 8u J. F. DUNGKEL. IGAR GUTTER.

Patented Mar. 10,1891.

UNiTED ASTATES PATENT 'Ormel-j.

EMMET T. QUIN AND JOHN F. DUNOKEL, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

ClGAR-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,843, dated March 10, 1891.

Application led June 17, 1890. Serial No. 355.742. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that we, EMMET T. QUIN and JOHN F. DUNOKEL, of Kansas Cit-y, Jackson county, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Cutters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

Our invention relates to improvements in cigar-cutters; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices, which will be more fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of our invention made of two sections, with a joint extending longitudinally through its center. Fig. 2 is one section of our invention, showing the interior arrangement of the same. Fig. 3 is a crosssectional view taken on a line y y of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken on line x x of the same gure, showing the construction and the manner in which it is jointed where the two halves come together.

Our object in this invention is to providea highly ornamental and artistic cigar-cutter provided with a hand-hold at the rear, and a highly-ornamental receptacle at thefront, over the top of which are one or more openings for the purpose of thrusting the point of the cigar into in order to clip it preparatory to lighting. AThen the point of the cigar is clipped off, it drops down through the cylindrical receptacle on a removable slide-bar, forming the bottom, so constructed that when the receptacle needs to be cleansed the slide-bar is drawn rearward, letting the tip ends of the cigars drop out. We have also provided a cushion, made of rubber or other soft material, at the lower portion of the invention, extending round the outer edges. This is done in order that the cigar-cutter may be taken up from the counter or show-case glass and after using replaced without making undue noise or danger of breaking the showcase glass.

A represents our invention grasped in the left-hand; with the small end of a cigar thrust into one of the openings over the re- 5o ceptacle, ready for clipping.

B and B represent the two sections of the invention.

D represents the knife or cutter in dotted lines in position ready for thrusting forward against the tip of the cigar. This knife or cutter, it will 13e-observed, is made with the bevel on its under side with an oblique front edge, so that when it comes in contact with the cigarit is easily clipped.

C is the cigar; c c, two openings over the 6o receptacle.

C and D are screws which hold the two sections together. I

F is a trigger or lever which operates the cutter-knife.

fis a pin sustaining the trigger, holding it in place.

d is a suitable lug attached to the under side of the cutter-knife, against which the lever is pressed when the knife is thrust for- 7ov ward.

d is a bevel on the under side of the knife.

b b and b b are points which protrude outward and t in a corresponding number of indentures on the inner surface of either side of the joint, which serves to hold the two sections firmly in position when the screws C and D are inserted.

E is a spiral spring, one end of which is attached to screw C', the other end to c The 8o object of this spring is to draw the cutterknife back to its former positionl after the end of the cigar is clipped off.

I isl the rubber cushion on the under portion of the invention.

H is a recess-opening at the under portion of our invention, through which the slide-bar G is inserted, forming the lower portion of the invention, at the saine time closing the receptacle.

g is a small notch cut on the under portion of the slide-bar to provide a catch for the tip of the finger to draw it rearward when the receptacle needs cleansing.

Having thus fully described our invention, 95 whatwe claim as new, and desire to be protected in by Letters Patent of the United States, is-- y In a cigar-cutter, the combination of a base portion, a removable bottom therein, uprights roo secu red to the said hase portion at each end, one In testimony whereof we affix our signatures of the Said nprights constituting a hand-hold in presence oi" two Witnesses. and the other formino" 'zt chamber for the ief i f x ception of the cuttins, a hollow horizontal v lbggl'FL 5 portion connecting the upper end of the cham,- J

ber with the hand-hold, and a cutting device VitneSSeS: located in said horizontal portion, Substztn- J. E. HIGDON,

' tially described. GEO. G. THORPE. 

